I started Forge, which is an open-source, free project that lets you play Magic: The Gathering against the computer. Currently other people are updating Forge and there will be no more posts to this blog.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

What Other Cards Are Famous?

I recently added Black Vise to the beta version of MTG Forge and people seem to really love that card. That got me thinking about other cards that people would really love to use. I don’t know the answer so you have to leave a comment but I’ll make an educated guess about some other great cards. Since MTG Forge lets you play against the computer, you can use unfair, one-sided cards like Black Vise without making your opponent mad.

Probably most of Magic’s most memorable cards like Ancestral Recall and Lightning Bolt are from the earlier sets. Alpha had many super powerful cards. I was thinking that Land Tax is probably as famous as Black Vise. You can thoroughly abuse Land Tax and almost use it as a win condition.

Winter Orb is a very nasty card also. Orb would definitely hurt any opponent. Mana Flare is a great, fun, build-around-me card that at least doesn’t annoy your opponent. Berserk is an odd green instant that can be used as a pump spell or removal, since the creature is destroyed. I remember the computer using Berserk as a removal spell and it surprised me.

Necropotence is a very powerful black enchantment that lets you a draw card while reducing your life points. And Skullclamp was good enough to get banned, I guess drawing 2 cards every time you sacrificed a 1/1 creature was too good. White probably has the most well-known cards in all of Magic, Wrath of God and Serra Angel.

19 comments:

Autumn Willow,Blastoderm (and the later white version)Ernham DjinnIcy Manipulaterall the Jester's itemsScroll RackCursed ScrollTradewind Riders (quite awesome)Oath of GhoulsLiving DeathSurvival of the FittestThe RackHypnotic Specter (and like cards)Shadow Mage Infiltrator (and like cards)Quirion Rangers (quite good support card, nothing quite like being able to double use a land, save it from destruction and or untap a mighty blocker.)Mother of RunesSoltari Monk and PriestVoice of All(the other voices less so but still great)MorphlingMasticorethe Abyss, Drop of Honey (and like cards)Time Walk (and like cards)

Loxodon Warhammer.In my group of magicplayers, if one of us has a new deck, there is one guy who always asks: "is it a good deck?".What he actually means is: "Does it have Loxodon Warhammer in it?"The card is just insane! A 3 mana costing artifact equipment that equips for 3 mana and gives the creature 3/0, lifelink and trample!

Umezawa's Jitte is also evil beyond messure!On the right creature, it can take control of the game.

Nemata, Grove Guardian is also one of my old favorites. The ability to pour out heaps of saproling tokens and pump all of them by sacrificing one of them is just groovy. (excuse the pun)And since we have the sliver Queen already, Nemata might be do-able in the current MTG Forge.

Like when you are building a house you have to start with the foundation and build on it, the same thing applies to computer programming. I remember taking these baby steps with version 1. Some of you may remember the time the computer didn't care about the color of the mana, it was tap a Forest to play a white spell. I posted the code for version 2 just to show that something is working, but version 2 is no where near playable, lol.

Hi. I'm new. I haven't joined the forum but just found MTG Forge V1. It's simply amazing Forge. I think so anyway.

Anyway. Some cards that I play with now and love are the following, but I haven't seen in the game itself.

Reaver DemonMegrimDark RitualSeething Song (something like that)Ignite MemoriesSpellbookLibrary of LangNinjas (woohoo! all of 'em)Ashnod's Transmagrant (I can't spell for the life of me)Phage (you all know who she is, she's niiiice)Door to NothingnessIsochron Septre (again, spelling)Holy DayManaflareHeartbeat of Springoh oh.... ummm...

yeah... I could go on and on and on.

also a friend of mine (who plays and knows way more about Magic than I do) said the following about a bug that he found in V1.

If the opponent has slivers and he has slivers the slivers aren't sharing their abilities.I have no clue since I'm not the biggest sliver fan. I'm more of the Angel/Demon/Discard/Death/Burn fan.

I just posted Megrim at http://www.slightlymagic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=661 in order to use it you will have to edit the source to MTG Forge and build the project yourself or wait till forge adds it.